Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
 "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."

* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
  vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
  vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
  writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
  writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
  writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
  writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
  writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
  fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
  mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 26adea8..93d8d2f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
  * Returns the global number of pages potentially available for dirty
  * page cache.  This is the base value for the global dirty limits.
  */
-unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
+static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
 {
 	unsigned long x;
 
@@ -1568,6 +1568,7 @@ void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
 	unsigned long background_thresh;
 	unsigned long dirty_thresh;
 	global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
+	global_dirty_limit = dirty_thresh;
 	ratelimit_pages = dirty_thresh / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
 	if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
 		ratelimit_pages = 16;
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index d7b433a..be5af34 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ static void shmem_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	}
 	BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks);
 	shmem_free_inode(inode->i_sb);
-	end_writeback(inode);
+	clear_inode(inode);
 }
 
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